Dakoda
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
Given to boys 78.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,356since 1986
Dakoda over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #1,970 | 79 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #1,832 | 87 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | #2,373 | 57 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #1,872 | 79 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #2,736 | 46 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #2,387 | 54 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #5,486 | 24 | #2,065 | 65 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #1,778 | 83 |
| 2009 | #3,561 | 45 | #1,708 | 91 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | #1,374 | 124 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 | #1,327 | 128 |
| 2006 | #2,887 | 60 | #1,273 | 131 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | #1,225 | 129 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 | #1,053 | 153 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 | #1,400 | 95 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #1,498 | 84 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | #1,429 | 87 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #1,271 | 102 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #1,019 | 136 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #1,159 | 108 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #1,013 | 126 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #935 | 139 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 | #921 | 144 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #952 | 134 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,000 | 119 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #1,135 | 94 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,443 | 62 |
| 1990 | — | #1,909 | 40 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,961 | 18 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dakoda! It came in at #3,440, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1988, when fewer than 19 boys a year got the name.
Where Dakoda is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#483 · 1 in 4,663
- Oklahoma#503 · 1 in 4,022
- Missouri#537 · 1 in 5,734
- Tennessee#635 · 1 in 6,934
- Georgia#689 · 1 in 6,273
Best ever in a state: #227 in West Virginia, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #483 | 8 | 1 in 4,663 |
| Oklahoma | #503 | 5 | 1 in 4,022 |
| Missouri | #537 | 6 | 1 in 5,734 |
| Tennessee | #635 | 5 | 1 in 6,934 |
| Georgia | #689 | 8 | 1 in 6,273 |
| Ohio | #717 | 7 | 1 in 10,001 |
| Michigan | #795 | 6 | 1 in 9,884 |
| Pennsylvania | #869 | 5 | 1 in 13,199 |
| Florida | #1,163 | 5 | 1 in 17,176 |
| California | #1,407 | 9 | 1 in 27,287 |
| Texas | #1,465 | 6 | 1 in 26,178 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dakoda
- 138 spots since 2024 (#1,970 → #2,108)
- 236 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #2,108)
- 81 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,108)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1993 (#1,135 → #1,000)
- Biggest drop: 78 spots in 1997 (#935 → #1,013)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 1995 at #921 (144 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1993–1996
- Highest: 1 in 12,974 boys born in 2004 were named Dakoda (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #921 in 1995, was only 1 in 13,220 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.5% of all boys named Dakoda (1,124) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 65 | #2,784 (1989) | #3,229 |
| 1990s | 1,102 | #921 (1995) | #1,149 |
| 2000s | 1,124 | #1,053 (2004) | #1,356 |
| 2010s | 613 | #1,778 (2010) | #2,225 |
| 2020s | 452 | #1,832 (2023) | #2,012 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dakoda in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 75,683 of them was named Dakoda, which outranked 72.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,370Vilma24
- #4,370Yasmina24
- #4,370Zayna24
- #4,508Dakoda23
- #4,508Abigal23
- #4,508Adrina23
- #4,508Adryanna23
- #4,660Aalyiah22
- #4,660Aleeya22
- #4,660Aleeyah22
Tied with 151 names at #4,508; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,961 of them was named Dakoda, which outranked 90.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).